Johann August Nauck (18 September 1822 – 3 August 1892) was a German classical scholar and
critic
A critic is a person who communicates an assessment and an opinion of various forms of creative works such as art, literature, music, cinema, theater, fashion, architecture, and food. Critics may also take as their subject social or governmen ...
. His chief work was the ''Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta'' (''TrGF'').
Biography
Nauck was born at
Auerstedt in present-day
Thuringia. He studied at the
University of Halle as a student of
Gottfried Bernhardy
Gottfried Bernhardy (20 March 1800 – 14 May 1875), German philologist and literary historian, was born at Landsberg an der Warthe (now Poland) in the Neumark.
Life
He was the son of Jewish parents in reduced circumstances. Two well-to-do un ...
and
Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier. In 1853 he became an adjunct under
August Meineke at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in
Berlin. After a brief stint as an educator at the ''Grauen Kloster'' (1858), he relocated to
St. Petersburg, where in 1869, he was appointed professor of
Greek at the historical-philological institute.
Nauck was one of the most distinguished textual critics of his day,
[Nauck , August]
@ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie although, like
PH Peerlkamp, he was fond of altering a text in accordance with what he thought the author must, or ought to, have written. Nauck was elected a foreign member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( nl, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed ...
in 1885.
Published works
The most important of his writings and translations, all of which deal with Greek language and
literature (especially the tragedians) are as follows:
* Fragments of
Aristophanes of Byzantium
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Aristophanes of Byzantium ( grc-gre, Ἀριστοφάνης ὁ Βυζάντιος ; BC) was a Hellenistic Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other ...
(1848).
* ''Euripidis Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum fragmenta; ex recensione Augusti Nauckii'', (1854). (
Euripides, tragedies and fragments)
* ''Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta'' (1856, last edition, 1983), His chief work — it was intended as a counterpart to Meineke's "comedy fragments", ("''Fragmenta comicorum graecorum''").
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* Revised edition of Schneidewin's annotated Sophocles (1856, etc.)
* Porphyrius of Tyre (1860, 2nd ed., 1886); "''Porphyrii philosophi Platonici opuscula selecta''".
* ''Lexikon Vindobonense'' (1867).
* texts of Homer, '' Odyssey'' (1874) and '' Iliad'' (1877–1879); published as "''Homerica carmina''" (volume I. Ilias; volume II. Odyssea).WorldCat Title]
Homerica carmina
*
Iamblichus
Iamblichus (; grc-gre, Ἰάμβλιχος ; Aramaic: 𐡉𐡌𐡋𐡊𐡅 ''Yamlīḵū''; ) was a Syrian neoplatonic philosopher of Arabic origin. He determined a direction later taken by neoplatonism. Iamblichus was also the biographer of ...
, ''De Vita Pythagorica'' (1884).
References
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External links
*
Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta' recensuit Augustus Nauck, Lipsiae sumptibus et typis B. G. Teubneri, 1856.
**
Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta' recensuit Augustus Nauck, editio secunda, Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1889.
Further reading
*Memoir by
T Zielinski, in
Bursian's ''Biographisches Jahrbuch'' (1894), and
JE Sandys, ''History of Classical Scholarship'', iii. (1908), pp. 149–152.
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1822 births
1892 deaths
People from Weimarer Land
German classical philologists
German classical scholars
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Saint Petersburg State University faculty
University of Halle alumni